A hilltop observation post at Forward Operating Base Masum Ghar in Panjwai district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Photo by Bill Ardolino for The Long War Journal. Bill Ardolino is currently ...

which is just northwest of Panjwai. They were accused of forming a "kill team" that murdered Afghan civilians for sport — slaughtering victims with grenades and powerful machine guns during ...

One day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out at the US and implied that more than one US soldier was involved in the mass murder of 16 Afghans in Kandahar’s Panjwai district last weekend, a ...

KABUL, April 8 (Xinhua) -- The counter-narcotics police have destroyed 36 acres of poppy farms in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province over the past week, provincial police spokesman Assadullah ...

He said Afghan security forces have retreated from 193 checkpoints and outposts in Zharai, Maiwand, Arghandab and Panjwai districts. The Defence Ministry in Kabul denied the reports, insisting ...

The anti-drug campaign had covered Daman, Panjwai, Khakriz ... in the eastern Nangarhar province a couple of days ago. The Afghan interim government has vowed to fight against illicit drugs ...